Sam440ep-Flex is a PowerPC modular motherboard engineered and produced by ACube Systems and it is totally made in Italy.

The main features of this board are:

low power consumption

passive cooling

scalability

The core of the board is the PowerPC 440EP, a System On Chip (SoC) produced by Applied Micro under license from IBM.

One of the main features of the Applied Micro PowerPC 440EP is the presence, together with the CPU, of a number of integrated peripherals. This allowed us to build a complete system with a huge savings of both development and debug time, with less components and space used on the PCB. This also results in a significant cost reduction for the customer.

As a consequence the northbridge/southbridge combination is not present on the board. Part of their functionalities are built into the CPU.

For the specific model of CPU mounted on the Sam board, the 440EP, we have the following integrated peripherals:

DDR memory controller

PCI controller

USB 1.1 host and USB 2.0 device controller

2 Ethernet 10/100 ports

Up to 4 serial ports

2 I2C interfaces

SPI interface

64 pins for General Purpose I/O

The 440EP chip has a size of 35x35 mm, with a PBGA packaging (456 balls). It is built with CMOS (0.13 um) technology, has a very low power consumption (only 3 Watts at 533Mhz) and it does not require any active cooling system.

Note that a purchase of AmigaOS 4.1 is mandatory with the Sam440epFlex.

Optionally you can complete your order with peripherals. Please check our online shop.

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All prices excluding local taxes and shipping costs from Italy. For European countries, Italian VAT (21%) is applied.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sam440ep-flex is RoHS.

Note that Sam440ep-flex needs an additional PCI graphics card.

The board is available in two versions: 733 Mhz and 667 Mhz. The 733 Mhz versions are selected boards with an 667 Mhz CPU with a higher clock and a RAM clock running at 147 Mhz. The boards are deeply tested and guaranteed to work at 733 Mhz with the associated memory modules.